Bear-Faced Cow
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Bear-Faced CowApollo 8 also came with TB3 cards as well. It’s moot anyways because you can get a Thunderbolt 2 adapter. My Apollo Silverface and satellites run this way without any issue. Even as such, there is plenty of horsepower. The only time bandwidth becomes an issue is if you are hooking up a monitor onto the same Daisy chain.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThe Apollo and Satellite are fine. Unless they are TB2, all you need is a TB cable. We don’t need to worry about FireWire connections because the no Apple Silicon unit has any.
jord
Bear-Faced CowActually, you don’t need to install both if you want the sounds and MIDI from EZ Drummer 2. The Product Manager, sees the EZD2 core library as an EZX. However, if you have project files from EZD2, then it is best to install both.
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Thanked by: Scott Eshleman and ShootieBear-Faced CowDespite the fact that the system has plenty of horsepower, I still agree with Jack as far as setting up SD with ProTools. But I will say outside of this is that if the OP is finding it inconvenient to do things the way we prescribed, then perhaps it is a DAW workflow issue in that the workflow is incompatible with what the OP wants to do. In that case, OP should be using a DAW that matches their workflow aspect.
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Thanked by: drumjack52Bear-Faced CowMany DAWs are able to tie multiple MIDI tracks to Superior Drummer, or any software instrument. You might need to consult the help section of ProTools to figure out how. I highly doubt it is incapable of such a used feature. Logic has been doing this for over 25 years.
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Thanked by: BrianBear-Faced CowThe only other one that comes to mind for me is Reaktor. Then again you can make that into anything.
It might also be worth noting that Superior Drummer is just shy of its eighth birthday. That’s I would expect anything like this to go into the next upgrade release version. Not to mention that I’d probably expect to see the GUI more in line with ToonTrack’s latest product offerings.
jord
Bear-Faced CowI’m not considering DAWs or applications. Logic is also configurable in that sense. Pigments might be the only software instrument that I have in this case. I’ve never looked at reconfiguring the GUI, but I will take you at your word and that the light setting is to be avoided. I don’t think any of my other Arturia plug-ins do this (and I have both of their collections). I haven’t seen this in any of my other software instruments or effects either.
jord
Bear-Faced CowI’m trying to think what music plug-ins have this capability. None of the major plug-ins I have do this.
jord
Bear-Faced CowThree separate tracks so that I can have control over processing each element separately, just like miking a real drum kit.
by your analogy what you are doing is mic’ing an individual kit piece from three separate drum kits in three separate rooms. The outcome is rather unnatural.
Mic’ing up a real drum kit is a holistic process. The kit is thought of as one kit with different components.
As Jack stated you do not need more than one instance for this. If you want to process your kit pieces outside of Superior Drummer, then you can set up a multi channel instance into your DAW.
Not only will this take care of your sync issue, but you will find that you have more resources at your disposal.
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Thanked by: drumjack52 and Scott EshlemanBear-Faced CowI find myself asking the obvious question of why is it necessary to use three instances of Superior Drummer, when a single instance will carry the kick, snare and hi-hat. I realize that it is a roundabout way of getting around this issue, but all I am seeing is that it is extreme overkill to me to use a single instance for each kit piece. Perhaps there may be a special reason, but it has not been stated anywhere.
jord
Bear-Faced CowI’m curious about the “three instrument track“ statement.
Reiterating my question, are you using three separate instances of Superior Drummer, or do you have 3 MIDI tracks tied into a single instance?
jord
Bear-Faced CowI would agree with Mark. It is not the keyboard. Starting with the keyboard, the keystation 88 is not a hammer action keyboard. That would be the Hammer 88 line. It is a semi weighted, keyboard. It plays more like a synth than a piano. I know this because I owned one. M–Audio calls it a piano feel because it resembles more a piano than the waterfall style keyboard of synthesizer/organ. Even if it were a hammer action type keyboard, it would not cause this:
The kick sound happens a second before the note on the timeline.
This is not a result of latency. There is some form of compensation happening within ProTools. Mark‘s suggestion to play the keyboard on a different MIDI track would be a more proper way of determining where the problem lies,
As far as:
3 instrument tracks: 1 for kick, 1 for snare, 1 for hihats. That’s all I want/need in this session.
is this three tracks for one instance of Superior Drummer? or are we talking about three instances of Superior Drummer?
jord
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